So which on-demand office suite will win?

I’m a firm believer in the ascendency of on-demand office productivity suites. Offerings from Google, Microsoft, Zoho and others are making the space kind of busy.

I have to say that Zoho seems to be the pick of the bunch at the moment, even more so after the release this weekend of Show2.0. Show is Zoho’s presentation offering an, unlike Google docs presentation offering which is very functionality light, Zoho show seems as functional as power point.

Main features of the upgrade include;

Nice user interface

Support for themes

Support for shapes and clip art

High level of editing capability

Great import functionality

Zoho is also an interesting business case as it is a self funded proposition and, if one believes what the insiders are saying, is not a candidate for takeover by one of the big players – for this reason (and given the massive number of features rolling out from Zoho every month), Zoho gets my vote in the ascendency wars.

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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